Canada’s two leading sports networks have quietly embraced opposing editorial policies for life under a Donald Trump presidency, with each trying to address an existential question: Should sports people just stick to sports?

At Sportsnet and TSN, the rival broadcasters owned by rival telecommunications companies — Rogers and Bell, respectively — on-air personalities have generally followed cues from senior executives with differing perspectives. One allows talk about politics, one prefers the talk stay focused on sports.

“We’re in the business of talking sports,” said Mark Milliere, TSN’s senior vice-president of production. “To some degree, our people also talk pop culture. But politics is different. Politics is a very divisive subject. And I don’t feel it’s our place to use our platforms to weigh in on that.”

He said the network has a policy in place, which extends to social media.